We moved to Texas in May of 2025 with expectations that this little rental business LeGrand started would grow and support our family. From everything we knew and could see, we thought it would happen pretty easily and quickly. Just like many things in life, it didn't quite go as expected. LeGrand worked hard, pounding the pavement, making contacts and trying to grow the business. Nothing worked.
In the meantime I told him that since we had extra time maybe we should just give more time to God. So...we became temple workers. We continued to use our time serving in the ward, and fixing up the house but reality was, we needed a job so that our savings didn't continue to dwindle to nothing.
LeGrand started looking for a job, applying for just about anything and everything. for a good 6 months he applied for all.the.things but, nothing! Not one interview. I always knew that God had us, that he would make the right thing work out BUT that still didn't take away the anxiety, worry and wonder. There were days it was hard for me to imagine we would ever have a job again. In March I started feeling like it was coming, like we were on the edge of something. It was about that time the Bishop called me to be the Relief Society president (I didn't get put in until the end of April). I remember telling LeGrand that it felt good to be settled, the kids seemed to have their place, and I could tell a job was coming and I was just happy to not be moving for the 4th year in a row.
LeGrand finally landed an interview, went through the whole rigorous process, hoping to land a management position with Amazon. They flew him to Dallas for interviews and the day after he got home he got a call from his recruiter who said there was good news and bad news. Bad was that they filled the position with someone else, good was that they loved him and wanted to offer him a different position....the catch, it wasn't a job that was currently open in Lubbock. At first, I really wasn't worried. I figured maybe we could find out that a position would come open in Lubbock in the next 3-4 months and just wait for it but unfortunately they came back and said there was no positions coming up in the near future. I honestly was in shock for a good week. I would wake up in the middle of the night and couldn't believe this was our life, HOW were we looking at ANOTHER move. We were just feeling settled, love our friends and ward and while Lubbock isn't the most beautiful place we LOVE the people. Uprooting again just felt SO heavy!
The kids were NOT happy. Especially Loa. We took the girls with LeGrand and I and went to the Temple that first weekend after we learned the news. In the baptisms they got lots of South Carolina names, for them it felt like God reassuring them. They REALLY wanted to only go to South Carolina, but after submitting 4 different options in the area we used to be in none of them were available so we moved to our next option. We've always loved Tennessee so we started looking there, first in the Nashville area then in Knoxville. I felt really good about Knoxville but was afraid to get too excited incase it didn't work out. After weeks and weeks of a slow process, we got offered a position just south of Knoxville. Everyone is now happy to go, maybe still hesitant about starting life all over again but we all feel good about it and are thrilled to be less than 3 hours from our South Carolina Family and less than 4 hours from the Christoffersons.
In the meantime, summer was starting and Lytzi was going to be having Cheer pictures and Camp and practices and even though we didn't know for sure where the job was yet we had to make the decision to have her step down from the Cheer squad to give another girl a chance to take her spot. It was the HARDEST to have to return all of her uniforms to her coach. She adored Coach Edwards and was SO looking forward to being on the squad. I hope she sees that God opens lots of doors for her in the future!
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